Railway-tariff



A. w. STANDING.

RAILWAY TARIFF, 810.

(Application flled June 23, 1898.)

Patented June 20, I899.

LUMBER TARIFF NO. 20W.

RAILWAY COMPANY.

2 Shaets-Shbet l.

Auflmrlly Na. C. 7566.

Effective October 1st, 1894; Page 3 Rates in Cents per One Hundred Pounds.

Auflmrfly for Changes. N s 122122;: 5 Ti 3 To 6 6 1'5 13 :3 5 1'5 1: & E

1. Abby 111111.. .Jml. 11 19 191 20 m 21 g. k. 1. n. Abingdon. Ills. 15 17 17k 18 18 19 22. b. 1. Abate .Ind. 11 11 191 20 no 111 '14 1.111. Achn.............. 1s 1': 175 1a 18' 15 22 l. 111. Adams (Decatur C0,). 15 17 17* 18 18 19 22 c. 1. Adam: M111; ..Ohiom 22 as as 114 27 k. n. Adair 5111;. 15 17 11; 1s 1s 19 22 1.1-. Addisnn..............-...-..Ohia 2o .22 mg 23 2a 24 21 1. m. Addysinn 1a 1a 131 10 1s 20 2s 11. c. d. 1.1. Adrian .Mich. 18 20 my 11 2.1 22 25 h. c. a. e..1 Adrian .-..o1,1 1g 20 101 21 21 22 15' k. 11. Adrian .Ills. 16 18 18! 19 20 20 23 c. 11.1. m. Advance .Ind. 15 17 17 18 1s 19 22 1. Advance .1115. 14 16 1a; 17 17 1s 21 c. a. 111. Adam 14 1e 1e} 17 11 1s 21 1.1.111. 0 13......................0hip 1s 20 2o; 21 21 2s 25 c. a. 1. m. Ainsworlh Ind. 1 1a 1a; 19 1a '10 is 1. m. 1111- 1-1111. ..0hio 16 1s m 19 19 2o 23 b. c. a. at .1.111 111mm. 20 12 221 23 2a 24 21 h. 11.1.1. Akron..."..................1na. 1e 1a 1s; 19 19 2o 22 c. 11.1.1. 111. Albany 11 1a 191 20 1o 21 24 1.111. A1bany..--..................O'hio 20 22 2a 23 a '24- 27 1.111. A1bmn.............. .1111. 11 19 191 20 2o 21 24 11.1. 1111mm. u 11 1o; 17 11 18 m n. c. 11.1.m. Albion 1s 21 $01 21 21 22 25 b. a. 1. m. Aldine 1a 1a 181 1b 19 20 2s 11. n. Aledo 15 17 171 1a 18 19 22 b. .Ahxander. 1a 1a 101 1'1 17 1a 21 b. c- 11.1.5. 1. 111. Alexandria.. .Ind. 16 1B 18} 19 19 20 23 11.0.11. a. f. 1. m. Ale'xand'ria.. -0hin 1s so 201 21 21 21 as k. 111.11. Alexis ..1l1s. 15 17 171 18 18 19 28 r. 1. 1n. Alhambra 14 16 1s 16 17 1s 21 L Allca.... Ohio 20 21 211 23 23 24 11 11.11.111. 11. 111.11 .Ind. 1a 19; 1s 19 20 1ab-c..!. 1.m. A1ger.............. Ohio 18 21) 2M 21 21 22 25 n.b.c.d..e..g.h.1.m. A'Hegan Mich. 20 22 22; 23 24 24 27 1.1 1. Alleghany.. 235 151 26 an 171 an 3 1 1. All-mm; 111:. 11 13 13 11 14 1s 1. m. Allentown .I. Ohio 22 22} 33 23 24 27 Where no club. 1: :hown in the Authorly for Changes" column, the muting, rates, etc, are affective with date 01 tariff. Wiinesses. ill 6n 0]? WT fi hw I I V (9' 7d I o-l-torrze gns' m: Nonms PETERS c0. wcTaurna, WASHINGYON. D. 1:.

No. 627,358. Patented June 20, I899. A. W. STANDING.

RAILWAY TARIFF, 81.6.

(Application filed June 23, 1898.) (No Model.) 2 Sheets $haet 2.

Authority No. C. 1586.

.RAILWAY COMPANY.

LUMBER TARIFF No. 20w.

Effective October 1st, 1891. Fage 3. Rates in Cents per One Hundred Pounds.

Authority for Changes, M N e 5 aourme...q. 2&55'555 Abby Dell -.Ind.

g. k. 1. m. n. Abingdon Ills.

Abate. .Ind.

Acton Adams (Decatur Co.)

Adam: Mills ..Ohio

Adair 1H5.

Addison Ohio Addyston H Adrian .Mich.

Adrian......................Ohio I 3 Adrian. .llls. 1e 1a 1a 1s; 1s 20 2a Advanae ..Ind..

.Ad v lnnee .1115.

b. Aeina Ag i; Ohio Ainswmh. In.

All Hill Ohiu Akron Akron .Jnd.

Alblon.-......

Albion I .Mic'h.

Aldino .Jnd.

Alam ..I1ls.

Alexander-...

Alexandria .Ind.

Alexandria .Qhi

Alexis.

j. 1. m. Alhambra... 14 1s; 15; 155 1s; m m

Alice Ohio lia ..Ind.

Algez....-......;....... ....Ohio

Am Mich. 2133?, Allegheny.................l Pa. a4 26 as; 27 27 5a -s1 A'Ikndale .1115. 5x2 Allentown .Ohio 17 19 m. 20 2o 21 24 Where no dafa isshown in the Authority for Changes column, the muting, rates, aim, are ofleufive with date of inrifl. W neQ-s'es- Eve JQW films W g m Merges/e n m: nbnms mm m. Pumau'ruu, wAsuNcYoN. n. c.

UNITED STATES P TENT OFFICE.

AMOS W. STANDING, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

RAI LWAY -TARI FF, 84.0.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 627,358, dated June 20, 1899.

Application filed June 23, 1898. Serial No. 684,297. (No model.)

To court/760m it may concern.-

Be it known that I, AMos W. STANDING, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful I'mprovements in Perpetual or Continuous Railway-Tariffs, &c., of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

Railway companies, for. the guidance of their employees and for the information of the public in general, issue freight and passenger tariffs showing routes, rates, &c., and also showing freight classifications, so that the articles to be forwarded may be properly classified and the proper rates used. Changes are constantly being made in these routes, rates, &c., and the roads issue new or revised sheets which they send to the various employees and other parties possessed of the original tariffs, and when the revisions become so numerous as to be too burdensome new and complete tariffs are again issued. When these revised sheets are received, the original tariff-books have to be corrected, which involves a vast amount of labor when taken as a whole.

It is the object of my invention to simplify this work and reduce the labor to a minimum, While at the same time to present always in collected arrangement rates or other data revised up to date and to have associated with such rates or data the reference to authority for them, as well as the dates on which they were respectively made effective, avoiding many possibilities of mistakes which are constantly arising under the old method and for which a corps of clerks have to be kept to correct the mistakes that are constantly being made.

My invention consists in features of novelty hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claims.

Figure I illustrates a page of a railwaytariff such as is designed to be originally issued in carrying out my invention, these pages or sheets being placed in a suitable cover, file, or temporary binder. Fig. II represents a page or sheet where certain changes have been made in the routing or rating and the authority for the posite thereto.

By referring to Fig. I there is to be seen one of the sheets or pages of the tariff as originally issued, such sheet stating when the tariff went into effect and the authority for the tariff. These sheets are originally sent out in complete form to the different employees of a railroad, and heretofore they have generallybeen sent in the form of a bound book or volume, with the authority appearing on the front cover of the book. Fig. I is not unlike a sheet or page of a tariff-book as heretofore used, except in the old form there did not appear the columns at the left of Fig. I, over which appear the words Authority for changes, nor did the sheets in the old form each contain the authority, as this appeared on the front cover of the book.

As stated, changes are being frequently made by railroads in the routing, rating, &c., of their tariffs, and to avoid the vast amount of labor and the danger of making mistakes which have existed under the old method of making amendments or changes is the prime object of my invention.

One form of carrying out my invention is illustrated by Fig. II of the drawings,whereon there appear three corrections in the routing illustrated in Fig. I, these changes in the routing being illustrated by the use of the letters g, k, l, m, n, in lieu of the letters g, k, l, n, opposite the name Abingdon, and the use of the letter b in lieu of the letters c,,d, m, opposite the name rEtna, and the use of the letters j, l, m, inlieu of the letters f, l, m, opposite the name Alhambra. Fig. II also shows changes in the rating, these changes being shown on theright-hand side of the figure, opposite the names Adrian, Alhambra, Allegheny, and Allentown. Whenever such a change ismade in the routing or rating, it is necessary to give the authority for the change. This is shown change appearing opin Fig. II in the column under the words Authority for changes, the authority for changes in the routing being given in the column indicated by the word Route, the number indicating the authority and the date of the change appearing opposite the letters indicating the changes in routing which have been referred to. The authority for the changes in the rating is placed in the column marked Rate and is placed opposite the numerals referred to on the right-hand side of the figure as indicating the change in rating. Fig. II assumes that there has been a change made in the routing from a given point to Abingdon, Illinois, l Etna, Illinois, and Alhambra, Illinois, and a change in the rates from a given point to Adrian, Illinois, Alhambra, Illinois, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, and Allentown, Ohio. I have omitted the routing and the numerals indicating the rating where no corrections have been made; but in practice the same letters and numerals would appear on the sheet opposite the places where no changes have been made as do appear on Fig. I.

\Vhenever a change is made by a railroad company either in the routing or rating, or both, the sheet of the tariff containing such change is reprinted with the desired amendments or changes and a sheet sent to each employee having one of the tariffs, and each employee simply has to substitute the corrected or amended sheet for the corresponding sheet found in his tariff, and in this way he always has before him a correct and continuous tariff without having to make changes in the original tariff or make references to certain amendments or changes that have been made, thus greatly simplifying his work when looking up the routing, rating, &c., to any particular point, and thus also avoiding the great liability of making mistakes that existed under the old plan.

From the foregoing description it will be seen that I have provided a tariff which will never involve more than a collection of one set of sheets covering the data required, and this set of sheets will be at all times up to date with respect to revisions or changes, and each of the data will have associated with it in position for ready inspection a reference to the authority establishing it and the date upon which it became effective. Moreover, by the nature of the tariff it is rendered perpetual or continuous by reason of the ready substitution of new sheets for old ones, and byhaving, in connection with such replaceable tariffsheets, the collateral matter as to the dai e and authority for establishing the respective data these facts are continuously preserved along with the different ratings, &c., and notwithstanding the continuous changes which are being effected in the tariff as a whole it is practicable at all times to consult not only the actual prevailing rates, &c., at any moment without necessity for cross references or searching through revision-sheets, but it is likewise practicable at all times to know the dates on which rates are established in adj usting claims for errors in charges.

The advantage of myinvention will be appreciated from the comparison of the complete constantly-revised tari if, having all data associated with it, with that which has heretofore beenused-to wit, a periodically-reprinted tariif-book, together with a large file of revision-sheets, through every one of which a search must be made each time a rate is looked up in order to ascertain whether any rate in the book has been changed by a revision-sheet.

Vhile I have shown my invention as applied to a tariff-sheet, it is obvious that it may also be applied to what is known in railroading as division-sheets, freight-classifications, the. ,wherever information is issued by the roads in which corrections are from time to time made and authority for such corrections has to be furnished with the correction.

I have shown in Fig. II, under the words Authority for changes, a column, marked Special, for containing the authority if the rate given is a special rate, and I have also shown a column, marked Commodities, for containinginformation regarding commodityrates.

I claim as my invention-- 1. A perpetual or continuous tarilf comprising a number of separable or replaceable sheets containing data such as routings, rates, &c., for which the tariff is issued, and the columns containing references to authority, dates, or other collateral entries to be associated with the data of the tariff, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. A perpetual or continuous tariff for railways, &c., comprisinga pluralityof separable and replaceable sheets containing the tariff data and also containing in the form, spaces for the introduction of matter to be added or deducted from time to time, such as references to authorities, dates or arbitraries, &c. ,whereby corrections may be made in the forms, and new corrected sheets containing current changes may be substituted at'will and thus keep the tariff up to date without reprinting other than the sheet immediately affected by the changes, substantially as herein explained.

AMOS \V. STANDING.

In presence of N. V. ALEXANDER, STANLEY STONER. 

